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Andrew Wyeth Biography

Andrew Newell Wyeth (/ˈwaɪ.ɛθ/ WY-eth; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was a visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century.

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Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

Art, Happen, Thinking, Today, Work

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

Aim, Content, Crafts, Emotional, Purpose

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of a thing than the truth of a thing.

Interested, Mood, Object, Objects, Painting

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.

Bits, Completely, Feet, Foot, Free, Imagination

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

Clothes, Life, Terrible, Walking, Walking Away, Wall

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Age, Firsts, Gallery, Macbeth, New York, Painting

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Break, Freedom, Rules

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Active, Father, Imagination, Read, World

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Art, Love, Think, Thinking

You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work. . sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

Early, Growth, Thinking, Work, Years

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide. . . He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

Guide, Line, Lines, Mirrors, Player, Quote

My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

Corner, Eye, Like, Looks, Struggle

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

Deeper, Powerful, Superficial Things, Technique

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

Battling, Course, Drawing, Knights, Undisciplined

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Anyplace, Fields, People, Studios, Wander

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

Alone, Child, Children, Frail, Left, Loneliness

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

Drama, Lose, Loses, Simplicity

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it. . . I always want to see the third dimension of something. . . I want to come alive with the object.

Real, Feelings, Texture, Realness, Search, Dimension

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.

Artist, Looks, Painting, See, Shock, Years

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Art, Dream, Painting, Subconscious

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